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When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.

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Book, Writing, Underwear

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Apr 02, 2013

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Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

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Bird, Would Be, Four

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He governed as if he felt predestined to never die

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Autumn, Felt, Dies

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And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left with the terror that he would never return. That was their life. Love, if it existed, was something separate: another life.

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Fear, Love Life, Men

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Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with.

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Angel, Trying, Coins

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In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.

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Children, Years, Way

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.300, Penguin UK

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Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

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Memories, Opportunity, Men

FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 16, 2013

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What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.

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Uncles, Father, Nephew

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This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

World, Responsible, Said

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Love in the Time of Cholera”, p.109, Penguin UK

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A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

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Pain, Cranes, Falcon

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”, p.44, Penguin UK

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Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Crush, Heart, Men

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Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.

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Sacrifice, Simple, Night

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Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

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Eye, Water, Naked

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A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.

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Orange, Anxiety, Bells

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his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

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Pain, Feelings, Desire

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An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.

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Dream, Memories, Gold

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Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

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President, Drs, Conservative

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There had never been a death so foretold.

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He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

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Crush, Children, Past

"One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.

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Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.

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Laughing, Feelings, Use

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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

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Storm, Trying, World

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The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.

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Children, Father, Discovery

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I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.

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New York, Mean, Past

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Only God knows how much I love you.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Romantic, Love You, God Knows

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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Goes On, Fame, Hours

Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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Born: March 6, 1927
Died: April 17, 2014
Occupation: Novelist
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